Hyderabad, British India, and the World: Muslim Networks and Minor Sovereignty, C.1850-1950

ISBN-13: 9781107463080 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 362 str.

Eric Lewis Beverley

Opis

A study of political possibilities in the era of modern imperialism, from the perspective of the sovereign state of Hyderabad.

Recenzje

'Hyderabad was a seat of political experimentation and sub-imperial power that was both communal and cosmopolitan. More than a princely state, as Eric Lewis Beverley shows, it is an exemplar of alternative forms of territorialized sovereignty in British India and beyond.' Antoinette Burton, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Spis treści

Introduction: fragmenting sovereignty; 1. Minor sovereignties: Hyderabad among states and empires; 2. The legal framework of sovereignty; Part I. Ideas: 3. A passage to another India: Hyderabad's discursive universe; 4. Hyderabad and the world: bureaucrat-intellectuals and Muslim modernist internationalism; Part II. Institutions: 5. Moglai temporality: institutions, imperialism and the making of the Hyderabad frontier; 6. Frontier as resource: law, crime and sovereignty on the margins of empire; Part III. Urban Space: 7. Remaking city, developing state: ethical patrimonialism, urbanism and economic planning; 8. Improvising urbanism: sanitation and power in Hyderabad and Secunderabad; Conclusion: fragmented sovereignty in a world of nation-states.